Trade Openness and the Skill Premium — An Inverted - ‘U’ Relation?

Relying on linked employer–employee data from the German manufacturing sector in 1996–2010, I study the relation between the share of exporting establishments and the skill premium within narrowly defined industries. I document that the skill premium tends to be higher in industries with a larger share of exporting establishments. However, once unobserved industry heterogeneity is taken into account, the empirical evidence suggests an inverted-‘U' relation between the share of exporting establishments and the skill premium

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Stijepic, Damir
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Handelsliberalisierung \| Trade liberalization \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Bildungsertrag \| Returns to education

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 25, 2016 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2814152 [DOI]
Classification:	F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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